1) My issues with POV, writing-wise, usually boils down to something : a) being in 3rd-person limited and then, DAMN, I have this awesome idea/line I could put in, but it'd be from another character's POV, thus destroying that limited thing. So usually, I grin and bear it and file the general idea way, and hopefully it'll pop up in another fic that I go about attempting! b) this isn't really different POV so much as it is, that, in 3rd person POV, at least for me, sometimes when I write, I end up changing tense each time I sit down to write and don't really realize it. (commas ahoy!, there)
2) I honestly don't think I'm fic-savvy enough to realize lapses between POV! How embarassing. :X
3&4) Personally, I don't like anything in first-person that is anything longer than a drabble. Mostly because it seems so...like you're thrust into it. You don't get this gradual connection with the character.
I think I tend to write, or at least tend to want to write 2nd person if it's a character (or, in my fandom, a player) that is well-known/established. And that probably has a lot to do with my style of writing. 2nd-person has a more informal feel. But I've never written anything longer than a one-shot in 2nd person, so I don't know how well my style + 2nd person would translate into a novella/novel-length fic vs. my style + 3rd person limited, you know? I do think that 2nd person can be very very effective in a long fic, though, if done right, but that depends on the plot too. And, I have to say here, my 3rd-person limited is probably more of a 3rd-person limited and the 3rd-person closed that you're talking about. In that, the tone is more tailored to the character, but not exactly the vocabulary?
I sort of...when I get an idea concerning a particular player or pairing, I usually know right away what POV it'll be. For example, say I get an idea about the Florida Marlins. Now, they're a team filled with rookies, guys no one has any idea about. And I want readers to be able to connect with them, which is why when I start writing in my head, I think out scenes using "Dan did this" or "Scott said that" instead of "you"; I don't presume that anybody else knows anything about these guys (because they don't have a very large fanbase anyway), and if someone stumbles along the fic, it's because they're familiar with something else I wrote as opposed to actually looking for fic about the Marlins. But if it were to be about, say, Derek Jeter & Alex Rodriguez, two very popular famous players that are on magazines everywhere and talked about on ESPN so much that even people who don't like them know pretty much everything about them? Well, I figure that if someone's clicking on a fic written about them, they are doing so because they know about them already, not because they want to get to know about them. So using 2nd person isn't really a problem.
Also, I've never thought about it until now, as I'm writing this, but maybe past tense v. present tense has to do with what POV you go for! And, in my experience, I write angsty fics in 2nd, and more fluffy fics in 3rd. Hmmm. *ponders the meaning of this.*
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a) being in 3rd-person limited and then, DAMN, I have this awesome idea/line I could put in, but it'd be from another character's POV, thus destroying that limited thing. So usually, I grin and bear it and file the general idea way, and hopefully it'll pop up in another fic that I go about attempting!
b) this isn't really different POV so much as it is, that, in 3rd person POV, at least for me, sometimes when I write, I end up changing tense each time I sit down to write and don't really realize it. (commas ahoy!, there)
2) I honestly don't think I'm fic-savvy enough to realize lapses between POV! How embarassing. :X
3&4) Personally, I don't like anything in first-person that is anything longer than a drabble. Mostly because it seems so...like you're thrust into it. You don't get this gradual connection with the character.
I think I tend to write, or at least tend to want to write 2nd person if it's a character (or, in my fandom, a player) that is well-known/established. And that probably has a lot to do with my style of writing. 2nd-person has a more informal feel. But I've never written anything longer than a one-shot in 2nd person, so I don't know how well my style + 2nd person would translate into a novella/novel-length fic vs. my style + 3rd person limited, you know?
I do think that 2nd person can be very very effective in a long fic, though, if done right, but that depends on the plot too.
And, I have to say here, my 3rd-person limited is probably more of a 3rd-person limited and the 3rd-person closed that you're talking about. In that, the tone is more tailored to the character, but not exactly the vocabulary?
I sort of...when I get an idea concerning a particular player or pairing, I usually know right away what POV it'll be. For example, say I get an idea about the Florida Marlins. Now, they're a team filled with rookies, guys no one has any idea about. And I want readers to be able to connect with them, which is why when I start writing in my head, I think out scenes using "Dan did this" or "Scott said that" instead of "you"; I don't presume that anybody else knows anything about these guys (because they don't have a very large fanbase anyway), and if someone stumbles along the fic, it's because they're familiar with something else I wrote as opposed to actually looking for fic about the Marlins.
But if it were to be about, say, Derek Jeter & Alex Rodriguez, two very popular famous players that are on magazines everywhere and talked about on ESPN so much that even people who don't like them know pretty much everything about them? Well, I figure that if someone's clicking on a fic written about them, they are doing so because they know about them already, not because they want to get to know about them. So using 2nd person isn't really a problem.
Also, I've never thought about it until now, as I'm writing this, but maybe past tense v. present tense has to do with what POV you go for! And, in my experience, I write angsty fics in 2nd, and more fluffy fics in 3rd. Hmmm. *ponders the meaning of this.*
Excuse any redundancy. xD